Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into.

RBWells, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yes, I made a post about comics too! Most of my bookshelf is graphic novels.

I love East of West. Apocalyptic western horror with some of the best art in any series.

Black Science

Atomic Robo

Paper Girls

Transmetropolitan

Saga

And not sci fi but

Monstress

Sandman

Lucifer

Darkness Visible

The Highest House

Lazarus

Are all so good.

Riker_Maneuver, 10 months ago

Atomic Robo! Not enough people talk about Atomic Robo.

https://files.catbox.moe/hdq5os.jpg

RBWells, 10 months ago

Oh my God, I think it’s in the free comic book day book, where Dr. Dinosaur is at the gun show, has to be one of my favorite pages of any comic ever.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/474ec936-f204-4658-a481-9d3754019b86.png

pezhore, 10 months ago

Love me some Atomic Robo. I’ve been a fan of Brian Clevinger since the days of 8-Bit Theater.

One of my biggest scores was an original inked comic page from Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur.

steakmeout, 10 months ago

Transmetropolitan remains my favourite by far. It’s just so…chewy. It reminds me of 2000AD Dredd - panels overflowing with incidental details that show the city is alive. Spider is unrelenting and unrepresented.

TheAmishMan, 10 months ago

The comic itself certainly has some flaws. But the world, the history, the art, and the mythos were so compelling

CeruleanRuin, 10 months ago

I loved the worldbuilding, but fell off pretty quickly when I realized the characters weren’t going to get interesting.

TheAmishMan, 10 months ago

The lore behind the characters i really enjoyed, and a few characters I thought were interesting enough. Its a world Id love to read a really fleshed out wikipedia site on

DaSaw, 10 months ago

I’m not exactly a “fan”, but I remember years ago really enjoying a brief comic run called “Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Lost Universe’”, published under an almost equally brief label called “Tekno Comix”. I was really disappointed when they went under.

_haha_oh_wow_, 10 months ago

Never read that one, but I definitely enjoyed Transmetropolitan

Backspacecentury, 10 months ago

Can I recommend Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow? I just finished it, it's sci-fi-ey and a very enjoyable standalone story. The art is really good as well. I really enjoyed it.

Tigbitties, 10 months ago

Try Descender and if you haven't, try Saga.

BaroqueInMind, 10 months ago

Holy shit thank you for posting this! I just found out about this from you and found part 1 in my local library and this shit slaps hard as fuck. Thank you so much!

wingsfortheirsmiles, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Hickman is one of my favourite writers, easily!

1st: Black Monday Murders (not sci fi but so so good, I love occult stuff like this)

2nd: Decorum

4th=: Manhatten Projects and East of West

Given the success of Oppenheimer I’m surprised Manhattan Projects isn’t getting more love. I’d love a second volume of Decorum but you have to be patient with Hickman haha

RBWells, 10 months ago

Black Monday Murders is great - Mammon is my wallpaper at work, lol. But it needs more, sort of dropped off in the middle!

grasshopper_mouse, 10 months ago

Does the IDW run of Transformers count? One of my favorites by far.

DLSchichtl, 10 months ago

Now THIS looks like my jam. As someone who is only marginally knowledgeable about comics, can anyone recommend stuff in this vein?

Riker_Maneuver, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

To name a few other sci-fi ones: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/saga, https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/low, https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/black-science, and if you love pulpy sci-fi there is also https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/fear-agent. They have some really cool art too.

From Black Science #1:
https://files.catbox.moe/61rin2.jpg

Edit: Oh, also want to shill James Stokoe’s https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/30-286/Aliens-Dead-Orbit-1 just because I’m in love with the art in everything he does.

RBWells, 10 months ago

I really enjoyed Black Science and did like Low.

rektdeckard, 10 months ago

Excellent art/world and pretty compelling story. Almost everything from Image Comics is really top quality. Recently read ODY-C and working my way through the Low series. Can’t recommend enough.

thorbot, 10 months ago

Anyone with a fucking robot balloon is to be taken super seriously

Kryten, 10 months ago

I think this was the first series I finished front to back. Got me into comics that had a finite length, unlike a lot of super hero comics.

Riker_Maneuver, 10 months ago

Yeah, luckily, around the time I started to burn out on the endless events and reboots in Marvel and DC was when I feel like Image Comics really hit its stride. I wanna say early to mid 2010s(?) they really started branching out/expanding in what they published, and finding recognition and success—well, as much as comics can expect—for it.

Kryten, 10 months ago

Yeah! Saga, Invincible, The wicked + The divine, paper girls…

So many more that I still need to read. Montress, Deadly class, chew, rat queens, the department of truth, kick-ass…

Senex, 10 months ago

Man, I loved Descender and Ascender. Beautifully drawn & great story!

Senex, 10 months ago

Most of the stuff I read is from Image Comics. I too have the Marvel/Dc burnout.

Ace0fBlades, 10 months ago

The character design of the (aliens?) reminds me of something I’d see in The Fifth Element!

Riker_Maneuver, 10 months ago

Now that you mention it, it does give off those 5th Element vibes. Though, The Endless Nation is actually comprised of Native Americans, so it’s the complete opposite of aliens in both the extraterrestrial sense and the immigrant sense.

No one really knows what went down, but at some point they went into isolation for a considerable time, then emerged as a technological superpower. As the comic puts it:

There is no record of the internal revolution which resulted in the Machine State, only the oral history of cast-out believers who now reside in the dead country. One day there was no Machine State, and then the next there was.